Some tropical animals are so rare, they haven’t been sighted by researchers in years. Though many are simply elusive—in dense jungle areas, it’s easy for small or skittish animals to stay hidden, even ...

The oldest leech ever discovered has turned out to be a shape shifter of expectations, preserving a body plan that looks nothing like the streamlined bloodsuckers that haunt horror movies and hospital ...

The frequent presence of leeches with a hidden lifestyle in the mantle cavity of freshwater mussels has been recorded since the second half of the 19th century. Yet this was, until now, regarded as an ...

A chance video by a grad student relishing her first big field trip might help resolve an argument that’s raged among biologists for more than a century. The question: Can leeches jump? Yes, at least ...

When bending maggots and leeches to our medicinal will, both involve applying the animals directly to a specific site on the body. Maggots chew at wounds that won’t heal; leeches are one of the oldest ...

Between one-third and one-half of all animals taken into two shelters in Berrien and Cass counties were put down last year, accounting for some of the highest shelter animal death rates in the state.